Buffy vs Edward (Twilight Remixed)
Over 2.5 million views since 06/19/09 & subtitled into 30 languages!
Read why I made the remix on Women In Media and News - See my FAQ post
Description:
In this remixed narrative Edward Cullen from the Twilight Series meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer at Sunnydale High. It’s an example of transformative storytelling serving as a pro-feminist visual critique of Edward’s character and generally creepy behavior. Seen through Buffy’s eyes, some of the more sexist gender roles and patriarchal Hollywood themes embedded in the Twilight saga are exposed in hilarious ways. Ultimately this remix is about more than a decisive showdown between the slayer and the sparkly vampire. It also doubles as a metaphor for the ongoing battle between two opposing visions of gender roles in the 21ist century.
Press:
• NPR Radio – When Fair Use Isn’t Fair
• LA Times – Meet the man who staked ‘Twilight’s’ leading vamp
• Jezebel – Buffy Shuts Down Edward Cullen In The Best Clip Ever
• Entertainment Weekly – Twilight and Buffy: Together at last!
• Perez Hilton – Edward Cullen meets Buffy Summers
• After Ellen – Buffy vs Edward: Place your bets now
• Washington City Paper – Buffy Vs. Edward Cullen: A Feminist Mash-Up
• Slate – Jung, Buffy, Twilight, Virginia Woolf—and Happiness
• Change.org – Buffy vs Edward Cullen
• Vanity Fair – Buffy Could Kick Edward Cullen’s Precious Sparkly Ass
• New York Post – Edward Cullen, Dusted by Buffy
• Technology Review Magazine – Open Video in Practice
In Depth:
• Bitch Magazine – What Would Buffy Do? Notes on Dusting Edward Cullen
• Compare the original stalking scenes from Buffy and Twilight on Critical Commons
• Check out my answers to frequently asked questions about the remix
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• large full res version 188mb
• iphone/ipod version 40mb
• 3gp cell phone version 5mb
• web streaming on blip.tv
Subtitles & Translations:
• Closed caption option available on the youtube version for those that find it useful
• Link to the full english transcript from “Buffy vs Edward”
• Subtitled in – Czech, Russian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Swedish, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Slovak, Lithuanian, Chinese, Malay, Dutch, Danish, Romanian, Tagalog, Slovenian, Arabic, Japanese, Turkish, German, Italian, French, Hungarian, Portuguese (Brazil & Portugal), Indonesian, Finnish & Spanish via DotSub.com
• You can help by adding, editing or fixing the translations here
Fair-use Notice & License:
This is a transformative work and constitutes a fair-use of any copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US copyright law. “Buffy vs Edward (Twilight Remixed)” by Jonathan McIntosh is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-3.0 License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Find out more about fair use at the Center for Social Media and more about fan based transformative works at the Organization for Transformative Works.
Discussion & Reviews:
A quick list of some of my favorite reactions and debates on the remix: jezebel.com, pandagon.net, smartbitchestrashybooks.com, pixiepalace.com, whedonesque.com and this Twilight fan blog. I’m sure there are many more out there – feel free to comment with links.
“It’s really good, I liked the girl power it showed. I’ve watched it like 10 times and showed it to my friends. It’s the best thing I have ever seen on the internet!”
— Dawi Zarni, age 10 Twilight fan on Buffy vs Edward
Special Thanks:
Thanks to Ryanne Hodson for all her help with the video encoding. Also to Anita Sarkeesian for consulting throughout the project, as well as to Francesca Coppa and Martin Leduc for help beta testing the narrative. Although this work is not a “vid“, it was influenced by vidding and vidders like Laura Shaprio. Thanks to bell hooks for her inspirational writing on pop culture, feminism, racism and love. And lastly, of course, to Joss Whedon for writing Buffy as a strong complex female character on television.
“..it’s true that Edward hasn’t come up against a kick-ass woman like Buffy. I’m really glad that she didn’t end up doing the smoochies with him.”
— Marti Noxon, executive producer of Buffy on the remix
So You Think You Can Be President?
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Watch & share on YouTube – Read my post on why I made this remix
So You Think You Can Be President? is a re-imagined reality television show where candidates compete for American votes!
Presidential hopefuls must present their positions on major issues in front of a live studio audience then face hard-hitting critiques from our panel of judges. Viewers at home will delight in the spectacle as candidates are challenged in ways never before seen in mainstream media.
In this week’s episode, only two weeks before the election, Senator Obama and Senator McCain have their feet held to the fire over shockingly similar positions on energy and foreign policy.
Who will be this season’s champion and take home the grand prize? You’ll have to watch and decide for yourself, then participate in the show by casting a vote* for your favorite performer on November 4th!
*Some restrictions may apply. In certain areas these include, but are not limited to, faulty electronic voting systems, racist voter laws and/or voter roll purges. See your local polling place for details.
The Real Power of Human Energy
Another identity correction remix that turns Chevron’s multi-million dollar Human Energy “greenwashing” PR blitz on its head. Though the video targets Chevron Oil and their Orwellian “Human Energy” campaign, it also focuses more broadly on corporate control of global oil supplies and the connection to brutal American foreign policy. In this corrected commercial the company’s true nature is exposed for what it is, a heartless profit-driven oil machine. The Chevron corporation is not only an ecological catastrophe around the world but still does business with the Burma dictatorship, has oil contracts in war-torn Iraq and is responsible for human rights atrocities in the Niger Delta, among other unpleasant and nasty things.
Remix Source Media: Chevron TV ads, US Army ads, BBC News, Discovery Channel’s Future Weapons, the TV show CSI plus several other short clips recorded off television.
You can also see these and other remixes on my Blip.tv and YouTube channels.
Go Army: Bad Guys
A remixed commercial targeting the US Army’s use of torture in Iraq and around the world. The video (re)creates a military recruitment television ad to expose army atrocities as well as highlight the disturbing normalization and acceptance of torture in the collective consciousness of American youth.
The remix is an example of an Identity Correction ad, a term borrowed from political pranksters The Yes Men. Identity Correction functions in Political Remix Videos by mimicking and often appropriating the advertisements of powerful institutions in order to change or “correct” their carefully constructed PR image. I premiered this remix at the 24/7 DIY Video Summit in Los Angeles, February 2008. I was also curating a screening of Political Remix Video at the event which was put on by USC.
Remix Source Media: US Army ads, TBS TV promo for “Bad Guys Week”, clips from the movie Rendition and the documentary film Taxi to the Dark Side, plus several other short clips recorded off television.
You can also see these and other remixes on my Blip.tv and YouTube channels.
Dropped into the Blue
A Political Remix Video I created in 2005 by combining and mashing together TV ads including commercials for the United States Air Force and Florida theme parks. It addresses the recruiting of large numbers of young Americans to be “dropped on Iraq” to kill and be killed.
Hummer Bummer
I created this remix in 2003 to mimic General Motor’s Hummer (H2) TV advertising campaign. I replaced the original text in the commercial and overlaid new text to address environmental, social and political concerns.
FOXed News: Living in a Dreamworld
A Matrix style remix promo commercial for the Fox News channel created using clips from various television ads.
Share Life: Iraq Tour
A Political Remix Video I created in 2002 by combining a TV commercial for Kodak with documentary film footage to focus on the absence of graphic or realistic images of human suffering in Iraq presented in the US mainstream news media.
